This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Q: In which John Woo movie does a guy in a black trenchcoat and sunglasses pull out a pair of nickel-plated .45 automatics and start blazing away with both barrels while flying through the air? A: All of them (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
This magnum-strength soundtrack to the director’s upcoming Mission: Impossible sequel is pretty much the audio equivalent of that piece of stock Woo footage. Limp Bizkit kick things off with a muscular rap-core reworking of M:I’s classic, noirish theme, setting the pace for more than a dozen high-velocity original tracks from high-calibre acts such as Rob Zombie (the pummelling cartoon-metal of Scum of the Earth), Chris Cornell (Mission 2000, the closest thing to a Soundgarden track he’s recorded), Foo Fighters and Brian May (who crank up Pink Floyd’s Have A Cigar into a churning post-grunge maelstrom) and Metallica (whose bruising stomper I Disappear was leaked to the Internet, spurring their battle with Napster). Beyond these heavyweights, there are a few too many second-rate tracks from second-rate acts (Diffuser? Tinfed?). Still, it’s impossible not to get a kick out this CD.
